As iconic crooner Paul Anka sang at Sands Bethlehem Event Center on Sunday, it was announced another iconic crooner is coming to the venue.

Engelbert Humperdink, best known for his chart-topping hits “Release Me (And Let Me Love Again) and “After the Lovin’,” will play the venue on Oct. 10, it was announced on the venue's website, www.sandseventcenter.com.

Tickets, at $39.50 to $69.50, will go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. June 1 at www.sandseventcenter.com or www.livenation.com or by calling 800-745-3000..

It was the first new booking announced for the event center in three weeks -- since insult comic Don Rickles and blues rocker George Thorogood were announced May 7 – as the center busied itself with an opening week that had The Beach Boys 50th anniversary reunion tour, Country star Alan Jackson, alt-rockers Incubus, The Eagles singer Glenn Frey in a solo show, Celtic punk band Flogging Molly and, on Saturday, Melissa Etheridge.

Although Lehigh Valley Music announced a week ago that some websites list comedian Larry The Cable Guy coming to the venue on Oct. 6, the event center has not announced that show.

Humperdink, 76, played Easton’s State Theatre in 2007.

He has had nine Top 30 albums, starting with singles, starting with “Release Me” in 1967, which produce the title track, his highest-charting single, and another hit, “The Last Waltz.” His highest-charting album was his self-titled album, which hit No. 5 in 1969.

He had an amazing resurgence in 1976 with “After the Lovin’,” which went to No. 8, sold gold status and got him nominated for a Grammy Award. It also pushed his album of the same name to double platinum, with it peaking on the charts at No. 17 – his last album to hit the Top 100.

In all, Humperdink has released 96 albums, including Grammy Award-nominated “Always Hear The Harmony: The Gospel Sessions” in 2003.

He just released the new “Release Me: The Best of Engelbert Humperdink,” on May 14.

JOHN J. MOSER has been around long enough to have seen the original Ramones in a small club in New Jersey, U2 from the fourth row of a theater and Bob Dylan's born-again tours. But he also has the number for All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler on his cell phone, wrote the first story ever done on Jack's Mannequin and hung out in Wiz Khalifa's hotel room.

OTHER CONTRIBUTORS

JODI DUCKETT: As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell.

KATHY LAUER-WILLIAMS enjoys all types of music, from roots rock and folk to classical and opera. Music has been a constant backdrop to her life since she first sat on the steps listening to her mother’s Broadway LPs when she was 2. Since becoming a mother herself, she has become well-versed on the growing genre of kindie rock and, with her son in tow, can boast she has seen a majority of the current kid’s performers from Dan Zanes to They Might Be Giants.

STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS: A Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in search of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country,' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity.